Wednesday, January 21, 2004

Blegging for suggestions

Yesterday I put together a post I called, "What others are saying" where I rounded up a wide variety of quotes from the blogosphere about the State of the Union address. In response Joe Carter said I should try to make this a regular feature.

That's an interesting idea, but frankly I'm not quite sure how it would work. With the SOTU it was fairly easy because I knew that a rather large and diverse group of people would be posting their comments in a rather brief period of time. However for most issues this is not the case; unless something pretty dramatic happens you can't really count on very many people discussing the same topic. Even when lots of people do post on a given topic those comments are generally spread over a span of several hours, or even days. Given the normal time span for this type of thing, how would a post like that work on a regular basis?

I suppose that I could just wait a while until the issue had played out, but it seemed to me that the value of that post was it's immediacy. Also, how would that differ from what I generally do besides focussing more on a particular issue?

It's also possible, I guess, to not limit the post to a single issue. If I did that though I really don't know what the point would be. That would be almost exactly what I'm doing now, except maybe grouping a lot of it together in one post.

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The concept is quite simple…You’re the moderator and the topics are of your choosing. Post the topic of discussion on your personal page. After a defined period of time cite those from other pages that you already frequent and consider as caliber material.

Well, that would work well, except I don't think I get enough traffic to be able to generate that level of discussion. I get 400 hits a day, on a good day. Usually closer to 300. That I know of 20-30 of those are other bloggers, but they're own blogging habits are diverse enough that very few would be likely to be interested in any given topic.

Still, that's an idea that might be worth thinking about. I'm just unsure how to work out the details.